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Personal development

Slides about different personal development topics:

The only time management guide you will ever need

The most valuable asset you have in your life is time. If you had infinite time on this planet, you could achieve every single thing you wanted. The time limitation is the biggest burden of our lives. Therefore, the first rule of success is to manage time wisely.

You’ll get to know all the best time management techniques in 77 slides. You’ll learn how to manage distraction, organize yourself, deal with procrastination and organize your to-do lists.

You can also download a free eBook,The best time management ever, that goes along with these slides. It’s a very popular eBook that can save you lots of time in your life by teaching you how to organize yourself better.

Vision, hypotheses and customer discovery

Startups don't win because of a great vision, but because of a superior strategy. If you want to have a superior strategy, you must simply have better customer insight. Customer discovery principles can help you get real insight into your customers.

The first rule is to fall in love with a problem, not your solution or business idea. You must have a clear picture of what your product is designed to do. With customer interviews and different types of tests, your job is to confirm the value hypothesis (that people are prepared to pay for your solution).

You can write down all your hypotheses on the business model canvas, running lean canvas or even in a spreadsheet. Then you have to constantly sketch out alternative business models by asking yourself difficult questions and testing different assumptions.

Steps to customer discovery include developing a vision, setting the hypotheses, getting out of the building and performing reality checks. The best way to start the customer discovery process is with the riskiest assumptions.

Important tools that can help you with customer discovery are also segmentation, personas, empathy map and value proposition canvas. After exploiting all the tools, you should have a clear picture of what your customer's pains and gains are, and what they’re willing to pay for.

When you’re doing customer discovery interviews to get market insights, you have to avoid making any behavior predictions or being satisfied with compliments, opinions or stalling. What you’re looking for is real commitment from early-evangelists.

Remember, wrong assumptions are the mother of all fu*k-ups and with customer discovery, you can make sure you aren’t building your business based on wrong assumptions.

Here are the articles on how you can use the same principles in your personal life:

Minimum Viable Product and Pivot

The presentation is dedicated to the minimum viable product, what it is, why is it important and how to build it. In the presentation, you can find many ideas that will help you with the build-measure-learn loop, which is a basic loop in lean startup theory.

The second part of the presentation concerns pivoting. Pivots are fundamental changes in business strategy and a very important part of avoiding any big failure or, even worse, becoming a zombie company, because learning about the markets is too slow.

Here are articles on how you can use the same principles in your personal life:

Innovation accounting and key metrics for startups

Traditional accounting in startups is usually incredibly simple – revenues, margins, free cash flow and other traditional accounting metrics are zero or very close to zero.

It’s also impossible to do financial forecasts for startups (P&L, balance sheet …) since accurate forecasts require a long and stable operating history. Therefore, a startup must focus on the key metrics that show real progress in the search mode before becoming a stable business. A startup has to use innovation accounting instead of traditional accounting as the framework for measuring performance.

The presentation covers the basics of a data-driven organization, the difference between vanity, actionable and other types of metrics, why you should focus on the one metric that matters most in different stages of a startup, what are the common pitfalls when analyzing data, and how to use AARRR as the best framework for analytics, especially for web startups.

Term sheet and valuation

The presentation is about the valuation of a startup and the usual deal structure – term sheet.

In the presentation, you can find an overview of why traditional valuation methods don't work (DCF, P/E multiple, …) and what the real life approaches are. You can also find more about the types of investments and potential exits.

The second part of the presentation is dedicated to the term sheet and most frequent terms in an equity investment, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. The presentation lists the most frequent provisions you can stumble upon, but no term sheet includes all of them.

In the presentation, you can learn about many different clauses that influence economics and control in a venture capital deal. Nevertheless, you should read more on the web (Term Sheet Hacks …) and in books like Venture Deals to have a clear picture of whether you have a good deal for your startup on the table or not.

About entrepreneurs and business ideas

This presentation is about the changes that led us into the post-information age and why entrepreneurs are such an important part of the creative society.

In the presentation, you will get familiar with the basics of successful individuals in the creative society, who entrepreneurs are and what are the main elements of success for startup companies all over the world.

The presentation also describes the biggest mistakes people make when starting a new business and how good business ideas can be categorized based on different types of core competencies.

Building a winning startup team – Basics

The presentation is about the basics of building a winning startup team. You will find that people follow people (leaders) and ideas that emotionally excite them. Having both is by far the best combination.

But an even more important fact is that many winning teams had worked together on a few projects where they had become synchronized before they founded their own startup and succeeded. Nevertheless, you will find a few hints for how to build your winning team from scratch.

How to write a business plan

This presentation is about business planning and how to write a business plan. For most startups, the agile and lean approach is much better than writing a business plan, but for some traditional industries and more mature companies, a business plan is still a tool to use.

In the presentation, you will find all the relevant information for why to write a business plan and how to do it. You will get the necessary knowledge on how to write a business plan based on the following structure:

Why to become a business angel

The presentation covers the main reasons why and how to become a business angel.

It starts with who business angels are and why startups are such an interesting investment opportunity, and continues with topics like risk mitigation, setting the investment strategy and investment criteria, and so on.

The presentation ends by describing the benefits of deal syndication and joining a business angel network. It’s a very basic presentation, but a good start if you never heard of business angels before.

Investor material for raising a VC fund

Example of a brochure for raising a small seed VC fund, including data like fund structure, investment strategy, organizational structure and other important information needed for investors to decide to invest in a startup business. It’s a brochure that helped me raise a 6,000,000 EUR fund. Unfortunately, I had to close the fund in the middle of the financial crisis of 2008. You can read more about that here.